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...Bronx Borough President James J. Lyons spread his neo-Babylonian banquet for the Security Councilmen at the Grand Concourse Plaza Hotel, Iran seemed far away indeed. Marshaled (vainly) to convince the U.N. that they should not move out of the hospitable Bronx were steaks, caviar, champagne and a three-piece band to play Meadowland for Delegate Gromyko. But no sooner had the last mellow tones subsided than the jarring discords of the supposedly settled Iran issue again filled...
Instead, he was returned to Washington, subsequently sent to India and China. India, which he had never visited before, inspires some of the most nearly apoplectic, most polysyllabic (and shrewd) passages in the book. The "impermeable autochthonic self-responsive misery" of the Indians depressed him almost as much as "neo-Fascism" had in Italy, though for entirely different reasons. Sheean regards Britain's stay in India as a "silly impertinence," but says that India's major problem is the Indians themselves...
...Protestantism. Said Episcopalian gadfly Dr. Bernard Iddings Bell in a recent Atlantic Monthly: the chief obstacle to Christian unity is not mere divergence of structure and administration among the churches, but the cleavage between those who believe in Christ's divinity and those who don't. Says neo-orthodox Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr in the current Presbyterian quarterly, Theology Today: "The problem of ecumenical Christianity in America is the problem of resolving what is true and false in both the Church and the sect idea of Christianity...
...Ernst's prizewinner was an expert nightmare (see cut). Runners-up: Belgian Paul Delvaux, who sent a study of three disarmingly naked, disarmingly beautiful women in a ruined, neo-classical landscape; Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, for an ulcerous omelet of flesh, fish, snakes and rodents; Salvador Dali, whose desert caravan of spider-legged elephants "carrying on their backs erotic fountains, obelisks, churches and escorials" (see cut) for once was pretty comprehensible...
...would be criminal madness to cast [the secret of atomic power] adrift in this still agitated and un-united world. ... I do not believe we should all have slept so soundly had the positions been reversed and some Communist or neo-Fascist state monopolized . . . these dread agents. The fear of them alone might easily have been used to enforce totalitarian systems upon the free democratic world, with consequences appalling to human imagination. . . . Ultimately, when the essential brotherhood of man is truly embodied and expressed in a world organization," the secret could be shared...